Essential Question: How do our perceptions affect our relationships?


Anchor Text: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"




Bell Ringer: Parallel Structure

Check homework!!
Write two sentences that use:
  1. vocabulary words from the story (venerable, infamous, dotage, eccentricities, sceptic, singular, transient, veracious, rejuvenate, assimilate, imbibe, obscure, mendicants, repentance, vigor, visage, complaisant, coquetry)
  2. parallel structure

Ex. The water from the Fountain of Youth erased the wrinkles from her visage and her vigor for life was renewed.

The writer struggled to assimilate the facts into an argument that was logical, objective, and venerable.

(Oops! Are both of these correct? What should I change?)

Write your sentences on your homework in order to receive full credit!


Discuss the Reading

How are the characters described? Why is each important to the story? What important quotes did you notice in your annotations? Why did you feel these were important? Did you notice DIDLS?

Diction- including figurative language
Imagery- Any words or phrases that gave the reader sensory images? For what effect?
Details-specifics about characters or events? The rose? The butterfly?
Language- Point of View?
Syntax- Parallel structure? Repetition? Rhetorical questions?

‍Discuss/Model

Write a paragraph as a class:

Describe Hawthorne's use of rhetorical strategies in his characterization of Dr. Killigrew.
Teacher Sample

Small Group Practice

Describe Hawthorne's use of rhetorical strategies in his characterization of Widow Wycherly.

Independent Formative Assessment

Describe Hawthorne's use of rhetorical strategies in his characterization of Dr. Heiddegger.